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Neither, they're talking about the culture of writing documents as a form of sharing ideas. Where other companies might use powerpoint presentations or unstructured meetings to bra…

As a current Amazonian (and one that, as mentioned in my other comment, enjoys working at AWS largely because of interactions with brilliant tech minds and projects), I agree with …

They have repeatedly tried to remove the free coffee perk (usually by claiming that it was only intended as a temporary thing and will be removed at the end of the year) and the on…

Money, mostly. But also: working at AWS is genuinely really interesting at a technical level. Very few companies operate at the scale that AWS does, and being able to have technica…

> We want to operate like the world’s largest startup It's always amusing when a multi-decade-old, multi-hundred-billion-dollar company says stuff like this. You're not a startup. …

TIL the origin of the term "cutover" for IT migrations. Fascinating!

My understanding is that it's the latter. "in SCED" basically means they have pre-planned availability that is cheap. The "Physical Response Capacity" in that graph is the amount o…

Texas has a lot of incentives for residential solar. I'm not sure where you live, but in my DFW suburb, my neighborhood _is_ peppered in rooftop solar. https://www.gosolartexas.org…

No. The 130 MW remaining capacity was the amount available "in SCED within 5 minutes", which in super simplified terms means "the amount of energy available quickly and economicall…

> At the time we did not auto-scale any of our containerized services and were spending a lot of unnecessary money to keep services provisioned such that they could always handle p…

The article brings up the two new LPs that were added, one being "Strive to be the world's best employer". The biggest slap in the face about this LP is that the word "strive" used…